Patents Assigned to Vision
  • LIGHT ASSEMBLY FOR THE LIGHTING AND/OR THE SIGNALING OF A MOTOR VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20170241613
    Abstract: The subject matter of the invention is a light assembly which comprises means for emitting and means for focusing one or more light beams for the lighting or the signaling of a vehicle. It also comprises a mask which extends below the focusing means. This mask has at least a first surface that can be seen by any person passing close to the vehicle and at least a second surface opposite the first surface. The mask is made from a dark diffusing material and a reflective material coating is deposited on part of the second surface while leaving a portion of this second surface free of reflective coating. Additional light-emitting means are placed opposite the second surface, such that the light rays emitted by the additional light-emitting means can pass through the mask via the portion free of reflective coating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Erwan FAOUCHER, Francois Gratecap
  • LUMINOUS MODULE FOR AN AUTOMOTIVE VEHICLE WITH CONNECTION TO GROUND
    Publication number: 20170241624
    Abstract: The invention proposes a luminous module comprising a flexible printed circuit board. The connection to ground of the electronic circuit accommodated by the printed circuit board is produced without adding fastening parts dedicated to this role. Compared to known prior-art techniques, the invention allows a luminous module to be produced comprising fewer constituent parts and occupying a smaller volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: VALEO VISION
    Inventor: Olivier BADIA
  • METHOD FOR PRESENTING INFORMATION UPON STARTING AN AUTOMOTIVE VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20170240130
    Abstract: A method for presenting information upon starting an automotive vehicle includes at least one step in which various parameters associated with the vehicle are verified. Also included is a step in which a particular light beam is projected onto a specific area of the passenger compartment of the vehicle when the state of a plurality of verified parameters allows the vehicle to be started.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Thierry FLEURENCE, Nicolas BOIROUX, Antoine BOILEVIN
  • LIGHT BEAM PROJECTION DEVICE PROVIDED WITH SUBMATRICES OF LIGHT SOURCES, LIGHTING AND HEADLIGHT MODULE PROVIDED WITH SUCH A DEVICE
    Publication number: 20170241606
    Abstract: An optical light beam projection device, notably for a motor vehicle, includes upstream in the direction of propagation of the light rays, a set of at least two associated submatrices each provided with primary light sources capable of emitting light rays. Downstream, a primary optical system is provided with a plurality of convergent optics, at least one convergent optic being associated with each submatrix and arranged downstream thereof, the separation between the optical axes of two adjacent convergent optics corresponds respectively to the separation between the centers of the corresponding adjacent submatrices. Another subject of the invention is an optical module comprising the device and a motor vehicle headlight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Marine COURCIER, Vanesa SANCHEZ
  • LIGHTING MODULE AND DEVICE WITH REDUCED SIZE FOR AUTOMOBILE VEHICLES
    Publication number: 20170241608
    Abstract: Module for emitting at least one light beam along an optical axis for automobile vehicles. The module includes at least a first and at least a second light sources, at least a first and at least a second optical collectors designed to collect the light emitted by the at least a first and the at least a second light sources, respectively, and for redirecting the light collected in convergent directions. At least one of the at least a first and the at least a second light sources is oriented in such a manner as to emit light in an overall direction of emission moving away from the optical axis. The collector associated with the or with said oriented light sources have at least partially an asymmetrical configuration elongating the collector along the optical axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: VALEO VISION
    Inventor: Simon GOUSSET-ROUSSEAU
  • LIGHTING DEVICE FOR MOTOR VEHICLES
    Publication number: 20170240105
    Abstract: A lighting system for a motor vehicle passenger compartment includes a light beam shaping device and an projection optical element configured to convert the light beam into an output beam. The beam shaping device is configured to emit a pixelized light beam formed of a plurality of sub-beams.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Jerome LECORRE, Pierre-Louis TASSY, Birane GAYE, Thierry FLEURENCE, Aymeric KONIEC
  • DEVICE ESPECIALLY FOR A DISPLAY FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE AND DISPLAY COMPRISING SUCH A DEVICE
    Publication number: 20170242489
    Abstract: Device especially for a display for visually impaired people and display including such a device. The device includes a tactile screen, especially for a display for visually impaired people, said screen including, on one of the edges thereof, a line of icons that each correspond to a piece of software. The surface of the said tactile screen is divided at least into as many columns as icons, and the device includes an element for determining the position of the finger of a user on said tactile screen in order to control the implementation of the software corresponding to the determined position of the user's finger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2015
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: INSIDE VISION
    Inventors: Denis LE ROUZO, Damien MAUDUIT
  • LIGHTING SYSTEM FOR MOTOR VEHICLE PASSENGER COMPARTMENT
    Publication number: 20170240106
    Abstract: A motor vehicle passenger compartment lighting system includes semiconductor light-emitting light sources and a substrate on which the light sources are grown. The light sources define a plurality of light-emitting zones (Sa, Slg, Sld), and the system is configured to activate the light source or sources of the same zone independently from one zone to another. The plurality of zones (Sa, Slg, Sld) are configured to emit beams intended to produce different lighting effects from one zone to another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Gilles BRIAND, Pierre ALBOU
  • LIGHT BEAM PROJECTION DEVICE PROVIDED WITH A MATRIX OF LIGHT SOURCES, LIGHTING AND HEADLIGHT MODULE PROVIDED WITH SUCH A DEVICE
    Publication number: 20170241607
    Abstract: The invention relates to an optical light beam projection device, notably for a motor vehicle, characterized in that it comprises, upstream in the direction of propagation of the light rays, a matrix of primary light sources capable of emitting light rays, and downstream, a primary optical system provided with a plurality of convergent optics configured to form virtual images of the primary light sources, the virtual images being formed upstream of the matrix of primary sources, such that the dimensions of the virtual images are greater than the dimensions of the primary light sources. Another subject of the invention is an optical module comprising the device and a motor vehicle headlight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: VALEO VISION
    Inventor: Marine COURCIER
  • HEAT DISSIPATION DEVICE FOR A LIGHT DEVICE OF A MOTOR VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20170241618
    Abstract: The invention proposes a heat dissipation device for a light device of a motor vehicle, comprising a metal support of generally planar form and at least one crimping pin intended to fix a printed circuit of said light device onto said support. According to the provisions of the invention, the dimensions of the crimping pins are independent of the thickness of the support of the heat dissipation device. Methods for assembling the crimping pins on the support, and a printed circuit on the pins, are also proposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: VALEO VISION
    Inventor: Olivier BADIA
  • LIGHTING DEVICE FOR AN AUTOMOTIVE VEHICLE AND ASSOCIATED ASSEMBLY METHOD
    Publication number: 20170241625
    Abstract: A lighting device for an automotive vehicle includes a printed circuit board having one or more electronic components, and a support joined, or capable of being joined, to the printed circuit board. The lighting device included a first joining device for joining the printed circuit board to the support, the first device permitting the printed circuit board to rotate, with respect to the support, about an axis and perpendicularly to the axis. Also included is second joining device for joining the printed circuit board to the support, located at a distance from the first joining device and capable of blocking the rotations of the printed circuit board with respect to the support, in an assembled configuration of the printed circuit board and the support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Samuel TROTTIER, Jean-Christophe THIMOUY
  • Window Vent Stop with Flexible Side Engagement Pieces
    Publication number: 20170241172
    Abstract: A window vent stop for use in a sliding sash window assembly or a sliding door assembly. The vent stop has a housing adapted to be disposed in a recess in the non-movable sash member. This housing includes a cavity with a bottom plate therein. The tumbler has at least one pivot for pivotally securing the tumbler to the housing for movement between an extended position, to prevent movement of the sliding member and a retracted position, to allow movement of the sliding member. Also within the housing is a spring for biasing the tumbler. The housing has one or more flexible members extending from the end walls of the housing that secure the housing to an opening in a window sash when a portion of the window sash ispositioned between the underside of a lip on said housing and the flexible member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: Vision Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Luke Liang, Tong Liang, David Chen
  • Lighting system with plurality of LED and heat fins
    Patent number: 9739462
    Abstract: An auxiliary lighting system includes a housing assembly having a generally planar surface and a lighting unit. The lighting unit includes a lighting module having a printed circuit board and a plurality of light emitting diodes operatively connected to the printed circuit board and a cover assembly including a protective cover, a frame, and a gasket. The lighting unit is assembled such that fasteners connect the frame, the protective cover, and the planar surface of the housing assembly to hold the lighting module between the protective cover and the planar surface and hold the gasket between the protective cover and the planar surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Vision Motor Sports, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony C. Georgitsis, Joseph Biro, Nicholas B. Irwin
  • Method of making a spectacle lens
    Patent number: 9738040
    Abstract: A method for making a spectacle lens includes joining a mold and a sealing ring. The mold has an integrated block piece and a mold shell made by primary shaping and the sealing ring has a first end face, a second end face, a peripheral seal, an opening disposed on the first end face configured to receive a mold, and a flexible membrane on the second end face. A polymerizable material is introduced into the mold cavity with the aid of a pump action of the flexible membrane of the sealing ring. The flexible membrane of the sealing ring is fixed in a desired surface shape and the polymerization is carried out. The mold is removed with a cast-on spectacle lens blank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf Meschenmoser, Norbert Kurz, Malte Riedel, Stephan Duewel
  • Test apparatus of a direct-light-type backlight module
    Patent number: 9740033
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide a test apparatus of a direct-light-type backlight module. The test apparatus comprises: a light-emitting-element fixing unit, configured for fixing a light emitting element; an optical-element fixing unit, configured for fixing an optical element into an optical path of the light emitted from the light emitting element; and a test head (85), configured for testing the light emitted from the light emitting element and passing through the optical element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE VISION-ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mingjun Li, Yunlong Tian, Changjia Fu
  • High Dynamic Range Imaging of Environment with a High Intensity Reflecting/Transmitting Source
    Publication number: 20170234976
    Abstract: Active-gated imaging system and method for imaging environment with at least one high-intensity source. A light source emits light pulses toward the environment, and an image sensor with a pixelated sensor array receives reflected pulses from a selected depth of field and generates a main image. The image sensor exposure mechanism includes a pixelated transfer gate synchronized with the emitted pulses. An image processor identifies oversaturated image portions of the main image resulting from a respective high-intensity source, and interprets the oversaturated image portions using supplementary image information acquired by image sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: Brightway Vision Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoav Grauer, Ofer David, Eyal Levi, Ezri Sonn, Haim Garten
  • IMMERSIVE THEATER
    Publication number: 20170234021
    Abstract: An immersive theater is provided having a screen oriented with respect to a pitched seating area to provide an immersive theater experience for all of the viewers. The theater can include a three-dimensional, concave shaped screen, defining a central axis that extends perpendicularly from the center point of the concave screen directed toward the seating area. The screen is oriented at a prescribed pitch angle (?) relative to the horizontal. The theater has a seating area having a plurality of seats for viewers and is set up in a stacked arrangement along a planar region and pitched at a prescribed angle (?). The seating area is further confined within a viewing area that is centered on the central axis of the screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: VISION 3 EXPERIENTIAL, LLC
    Inventors: Pierre J. de Lespinois, John E. Sullivan
  • SYSTEM OF LENSES FOR PROJECTING AT LEAST ONE LIGHT SOURCE
    Publication number: 20170234497
    Abstract: A system of lenses for projecting at least one light source includes from the source and in the direction of propagation of the light, at least one first group of optical elements made up of at least one first convergent lens called primary lens, in contact with said light source, obtained from a material exhibiting a high constringence and exhibiting a ratio between its thickness along the optical axis and its width greater than 0.5. Also included in said direction of propagation is a second group of optical elements made up of at least one divergent lens obtained from a material exhibiting a low constringence, a pupil, and a third group of optical elements made up of a reflector or of at least one convergent lens obtained from a material exhibiting a high constringence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Marine COURCIER, Jerome LECORRE
  • RANGE FINDER AND OPTICAL DEVICE
    Publication number: 20170234974
    Abstract: A distance detection apparatus including: a light output unit which outputs a light; a computation unit which computes a distance to a detection target by using a time until when the light output from the light output unit is received in a light receiving unit; a deblurring optical system which is driven based on a detection result of a blurring and through which the output light is transmitted; a detection unit which detects a position of the deblurring optical system; a storage unit which stores a predetermined range; a determination unit which determines whether the position detected by the detection unit is included in the predetermined range; and a control unit which controls a light output by the light output unit in accordance with a determination result of the determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: NIKON VISION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masahiro MOCHIZUKI
  • RANGE FINDER AND OPTICAL DEVICE
    Publication number: 20170234975
    Abstract: A distance detection apparatus includes: a detection unit which detects a time until when an output light is received by a light receiving unit; a computation unit which computes a distance to a detection target by using the time detected by the detection unit; an obtaining unit which obtains a predetermined range which is a range prone to a detection error due to a fog; and a determination unit which determines whether the distance to the detection target computed by the computation unit is included in the predetermined range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: NIKON VISION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takehito NONOMURA